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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:46:15 +0200
From:      Niklas Saers <berenmls@saers.com>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <Gary.Palmer@RCN.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990614224359.00a0b318@pop.saers.com>
In-Reply-To: <32720.929294925@noop.colo.erols.net>
References:  <Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:15:06 %2B0200."             <4.1.19990613111339.01fa8ad0@pop.saers.com>

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>That just opens you up to unauthorized relaying, except that you make
>the spammer make it look like it comes from your domain (on the from
>line) which would just make people think that its authorized.

This sounds WAAAY to black-and-white for me. :-I How have you ISP's out
there solved the smtp-problem? How do your users use SMTP?

>Also, places like ORBS check for that form of `relay protection' and
>will list you if you allow it.

I know. I like spam-protection, but this is to much for my taste!

>relaying. Unfortunately, authenticated SMTP (by far the best solution)
>isn't all that widespread yet, and I don't know any freeware programs
>that come with AuthSMTP built in. Sendmail doesn't have it yet,
>although Eric says it will be in the next rev (I believe)

Do mail-clients use AuthSMTP?? What are the alternatives to using sendmail,
anyway?

	Niklas


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